International Journal of Emerging Technology and Advanced Engineering Website: www.ijetae.com (ISSN 2250-2459, ISO 9001:2008 Certified Journal, Volume 3, Issue 5, May 2013) A Review of the Development in the Field of Fiber Optic Communication Systems Prachi Sharma1, Suraj Pardeshi2, Rohit Kumar Arora3, Mandeep Singh4 1,2,3 4 Global R&D Centre, Aryabhatta Crompton Greaves Ltd. Mumbai, India Electrical & Instrumentation Deptt. Thapar University Patiala, Punjab Optical underwater Communication is an effective alternative to current underwater technology especially in some particular environments such as shallow, coastal and fresh inland water where the use of this approach is useful to overcome all the shortcomings related to the use of acoustic communication and to allow a wide adoption of underwater monitoring systems [3]. Both the transmission capacity and flexibility in optical network design can significantly be improved using wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) systems [4]. Due to economic advantages, maturing technology, and high information capacity, single-mode fiber- optic transmission media will be embedded in future telecommunications networks. A desirable feature for these future optical networks would be the ability to process information directly in the optical domain for purposes of multiplexing, demultiplexing, filtering, amplification, and correlation. Optical signal processing would be advantageous because potentially it can be much faster than electrical signal photon-electron-photon conversions. Several new classes of optical networks are now emerging [5]. For example, code-division multiple access (CDMA) networks using optical signal processing techniques were recently introduced [6]-[13]. The optical fibers, widespread and commonly used in telecommunications, are the transmission medium that have been recently considered as very attractive to build links for T/Transfer [14], offering much better performance compared with the satellite links. This is because of unsurpassed propagation symmetry in both directions that is displayed by the optical fibers. A number of projects are devoted to applying the optical fibers to transmit either the light modulated by the electrical signals from an atomic clock [15]–[20] or a highly coherent optical carrier generated by the optical standard [21]–[23].Throughout the world, serious efforts are undertaken to setup the fiber-optic networks on an international scale dedicated to comparison of distant clocks and dissemination of the T/Signals. The paper is organised as follows. Section II deals with Evolution of Fiber Optics. Section III, describes Optical fiber. Section IV Presents Review of Development in Fiber Optic Communication and finally the Conclusions and Discussion are given in section V. Abstract—This paper presents a review of the latest research and development in the field of fibre optic communication system. Remarkable developments can be seen in the field of optical fibre communication in the last decade. Wide-bandwidth signal transmission with low latency is emerging as a key requirement in a number of applications, including the development of future exaflopscale supercomputers, financial algorithmic trading and cloud computing. Optical fibres provide unsurpassed transmission bandwidth, Optical fibre is now the transmission medium of' choice for long distance and high bit rate transmission in telecommunications networks. Keywords— Applications, multiplexing, transmission networks. bandwidth, fiber optic, and telecommunications I. INTRODUCTION The Optical fiber communications have changed our lives in many ways over the last four decades there is no doubt that low-loss optical transmission fibers have been critical to the enormous success of optical communications technology. There is no doubt that lowloss optical transmission fibers have been critical to the enormous success of optical communications technology. In the telecommunication sector, the so-called passive optical network was proposed for the already envisioned fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) network. This network relied heavily on the use of passive optical splitters. These splitters were fabricated from standard single-mode fibers (SMFs). Although FTTH, at a large scale, did not occur until decades later, research into the use of components for telecommunications applications continued. The commercial introduction of the fiber optic amplifier in the early 1990s revolutionized optical fiber transmissions. With amplification, optical signals could travel hundreds of kilometres without regeneration [1]. The performance of any communication system is ultimately limited by the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of the received signal and available bandwidth. This limitation cans be stated more formally by using the concept of channel capacity introduced within the framework of information theory [2]. 113 International Journal of Emerging Technology and Advanced Engineering Website: www.ijetae.com (ISSN 2250-2459, ISO 9001:2008 Certified Journal, Volume 3, Issue 5, May 2013) II. EVOLUTION O F F IBER OPTICS III. OPTICAL F IBER The research phase of fiber-optic communication systems started around 1975. The first generation of light wave systems operated near 0.8 m and used GaAs semiconductor lasers. After several field trials during the period 1977–79, such systems became available commercially in 1980 [24]. They operated at a bit rate of 45 Mb/sand allowed repeater spacing of up to 10 km. The larger repeater spacing compared with 1-km spacing of coaxial systems was an important motivation for system designers because it decreased the installation and maintenance costs associated with each repeater. The second-generation of fiber-optic communication systems became available in the early 1980s,but the bit rate of early systems was limited to below 100 Mb/s because of dispersion in multimode fibers [25]. This limitation was overcome by the use of single-mode fibers. A laboratory experiment in 1981 demonstrated transmission at 2 Gb/s over 44 km of single-mode fiber [15]. The introduction of commercial systems soon followed. By1987, second-generation light wave systems, operating at bit rates of up to 1.7 Gb/s with a repeater spacing of about 50 km, were commercially available. Third-generation light wave systems operating at 2.5 Gb/s became available commercially in 1990. Such systems are capable of operating at a bit rate of up to 10 Gb/s [26]. The best performance is achieved using dispersionshifted fibers in combination with lasers oscillating in a single longitudinal mode. A drawback of third-generation 1.55-m systems is that the signal is regenerated periodically by using electronic repeaters spaced apart typically by 60–70 km. The fourth generation of light wave systems makes use of optical amplification for increasing the repeater spacing and of wavelengthdivision multiplexing (WDM) for increasing the bit rate. By 1996, not only transmission over 11,300 km at a bit rate of 5 Gb/s had been demonstrated by using actual submarine cables [27], but commercial transatlantic and transpacific cable systems also became available. The fifth generation of fiber-optic communication systems is concerned with extending the wavelength range over which a WDM system can operate simultaneously. The conventional wavelength window, known as the C band, covers the wavelengthrange 1.53–1.57m. It is being extended on both the long- and short-wavelength sides, resulting in the L and S bands, respectively. The Raman amplification technique can be used for signals in all three wavelength bands. Moreover, a new kind of fiber, known as the dry fiber has been developed with the property that fiber losses are small over the entire wavelength region extending from 1.30 to 1.65 m [28]. An optical fiber is a cylindrical dielectric waveguide made of low-loss materials, usually fused silica glass of high chemical purity. The core of the waveguide has a refractive index slightly higher than that of the outer medium, the cladding, so that light is guided along the fiber axis by total internal reflection. Fiber optics is a medium for carrying information from one point to another in the form of light. Unlike the copper form of transmission, fiber optics is not electrical in nature. A basic fiber optic system consists of transmitting device that converts an electrical signal into a light signal, an optical fiber cable that carries the light, and a receiver that accepts the light signal and converts it back into an electrical signal. The complexity of a fiber optic system can range from very simple (i.e., local area network) to extremely sophisticated and expensive (i.e., long distance telephone or cable television trucking). For example, the system shown in Figure 1 could be built very inexpensively using a visible LED, plastic fiber, a silicon photo detector, and some simple electronic circuitry. Figure 1: Basic fiber optic communication system [29] We can categorize the fiber optic communication in two categories: 1. Step Index a. Single Mode b. Multimode 2. Guided Index Step Index: These types of fibers have sharp boundaries between the core and cladding, with clearly defined indices of refraction. The entire core uses single index of refraction. Single Mode Step Index: Single mode fiber has a core diameter of 8 to 9 microns, which only allows one light path or mode. Multimode Step-Index Fiber: Multimode fiber has a core diameter of 50 or 62.5 microns (sometimes even larger). It allows several light paths or modes. 114 International Journal of Emerging Technology and Advanced Engineering Website: www.ijetae.com (ISSN 2250-2459, ISO 9001:2008 Certified Journal, Volume 3, Issue 5, May 2013) This causes modal dispersion – some modes take longer to pass through the fiber than others because they travel a longer distance. Multimode Graded-Index Fiber Graded-index refers to the fact that the refractive index of the core gradually decreases farther from the centre of the core. The increased refraction in the centre of the core slows the speed of some light rays, allowing all the light rays to reach the receiving end at approximately the same time, reducing dispersion. f) Potential low cost: The glass which provides the optical fiber transmission medium is made from sand. So, in comparison to copper conductors, optical fiber offers the potential for low cost line communication. Disadvantage of Optical Fiber Communication: a) It requires a higher initial cost in installation b) Although the fiber cost is low, the connector and interfacing between the fiber optic costs a lot. c) Fiber optic requires specialized and sophisticated tools for maintenance and repairing [29] Attenuation Attenuation and pulse dispersion represent the two most important characteristics of an optical fiber that determine the information-carrying capacity of a fiber optic communication system. The decrease in signal strength along a fiber optic waveguide caused by absorption and scattering is known as attenuation. Attenuation is usually expressed in dB/km. IV. REVIEW O F DEVELOPMENT I N F IBER OPTIC COMMUNICATION Franz Fidler et al. [31] reviewed of technologies, theoretical studies, and experimental field trials for optical communications from and to high-altitude platforms (HAPs). Using lightweight and compact terminals, optical inter satellite links and orbit-to ground links are already operable [32]–[34], the latter suffering from cloud coverage [35], harsh weather conditions, and atmospheric Turbulence [36]. Current research also investigates optical communications from or to highaltitude platforms (HAPs) [37], [38]. HAPs are aircraft or airships situated well above the clouds at typical heights of 17 to 25 km, where the atmospheric impact on a laser beam is less severe than directly above ground [35]. As depicted in Fig. 3, optical links between HAPs, satellites, and ground stations are envisioned to serve as broadband backhaul communication channels if data from various sensors or RF communication terminals onboard the HAP is to be transmitted, or if an HAP works as a data relay station. Figure 2: Optical Fiber Modes [30] Advantage of Optical Fiber Communication: a) Enormous potential bandwidth: The optical carrier frequency has a far greater potential transmission BW than metallic cable systems. b) Small size and weight: Optical fiber has small diameters. Hence, even when such fibers are covered with protective coating they are far smaller and lighter than corresponding copper cables. c) Electrical Isolation: Optical fibers which are fabricated from glass or sometimes a plastic polymer are electrical insulators and unlike their metallic counterpart, they do not exhibit earth loop or interface problems. This property makes optical fiber transmission ideally suited for communication in electrically hazardous environments as fiber created no arcing or spark hazard at abrasion or short circuits. d) Signal security: The light from optical fiber does not radiate significantly and therefore they provide a high degree of signal security. This feature is attractive for military, banking and general data transmission i.e. computer networks application. e) Low transmission loss: The technological developments in optical fiber over last twenty years has resulted in optical cables which exhibits very low attenuation or transmission loss in comparison with best copper conductors. Fig. 3. Laser communication scenarios from HAPs. 115 International Journal of Emerging Technology and Advanced Engineering Website: www.ijetae.com (ISSN 2250-2459, ISO 9001:2008 Certified Journal, Volume 3, Issue 5, May 2013) Maria Espinosa Bosch et al. [39] reviewed consists of papers mainly reported in the last decade and presents about applications of optical fiber biosensors. Discussions on the trends in optical fiber biosensor applications in real samples are enumerated. Recently, Llobera et al. [40] presented the characterization and optimization of flexible transducers with demultiplexing properties, suitable for on-chip detection. Lucas et al. [41] functionalize the surface of chalcogenide Te–As–Se fibers with live human lung cells that can act as sensitizer for the detection on micro molar quantities of toxic agents. First it presented how the hydrophobic behaviour of chalcogenide glass affects the spectroscopic properties of chalcogenide fibers. Naughton et al. [42] described the development of a fibre optic sensor, based on immobilized nitrophenol that was of potential use for the continuous monitoring of OH radical production. Misiakos et al. [43] described an optical affinity sensor based on a monolithic optoelectronic transducer, which integrated on a silicon die thin optical fibers (silicon nitride) along with selfaligned light-emitting diodes (LED) and photo detectors (silicon p/n junction). F. Poletti et al. [44] represented the first experimental demonstration of fibre-based wavelength division multiplexed data transmission at close to (99.7%) the speed of light in vacuum. Jing Zhou et al. [45] presented a systematic analysis of the security factors of OICl's physical layer, i.e. all-fiber communication networks Infrasture (OIel) for power grid application as shown in Figure 4. Furthermore, there is no obvious difference whether distributed feedback (DFB) laser (with line width less than 5 MHz) or external cavity laser (ECL) (with line width less than 100 kHz) is used. Fig. 5. Principle for the bidirectional full-duplex optical/wireless integration system in the E-band. EA: electrical amplifier, PD: photo detector, pow. det.: power detector, WG: waveguide, HA: horn antenna, DML: directly-modulated laser, BS: base station[46] Lijia Zhang et al. [47] A novel multi-amplitude minimum shift keying (MAMSK) orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) signal was proposed for 60-GHz radio-over-fiber (RoF) access system. It can increase the tolerance toward frequency offset of an OFDM signal due to the faster roll-off side-lobe. In the experiment, a 3.21-Gb/s 2AMSK-OFDM signal is transmitted over 22 km single mode fiber (SMF) and 5 m air link successfully as shown in figure 6. Fig. 6. Experimental setup of proposed scheme (MZM: MachZehnder Fig.4. Framework of the optic-based information communication[45] Modulator, PD: photodiode. EA: electrical amplifier. LPF: low pass filter).[47] Xinying Li et al. [46] for the first time, they proposed and experimentally demonstrated mm-wave generation in the E-band based on photonics generation technique. they also experimentally demonstrated a bidirectional fullduplex optical/wireless integration system in the E-band with 1.5-m wireless delivery, in which 2- and 2.5-Gb/s error-free OOK signals are independently carried by 74and 84-GHz mm-wave carriers and transmitted in two opposite directions at the same time. Wei Xu et al. [48] a simple fiber optical sensor system used to measure the refractive index (RI) was proposed. It only consisted of one optical source, one 2×2 optical coupler with two fiber sensing ends, and one mechanical 1× 2 optical switch that is controlled by the drive voltage applied on it. 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